Trump's DC crime crackdown overwhelmingly benefits Black Americans as homicides hit zero

President Donald Trump's federalization of the D.C. police department and crackdown on Washington crime overwhelmingly benefited Black Americans, who are common victims of violent crimes, crime data found. 

"You go 13 days without a homicide occurring, those homicides would have invariably been very heavily Black," John Lott, founder and president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, told Fox News Digital in a Wednesday phone interview. "And so those lives, you have Blacks who didn't die, who otherwise would have died." 

Lott published data in August focusing on Washington, D.C.'s 13-day run of zero homicides following Trump federalizing the city's police department, deploying National Guard members to the streets, and unleashing federal law enforcement agencies to assist with arrests and crime sweeps of the city. There were no recorded homicides in the city beginning the afternoon of Aug. 13 through the early morning hours of Aug. 26, according to police data, with the streak ending when a 31-year-old man was fatally shot Aug. 26.